Curaçao Express was a regional

airline An airline is a company that provides civil aviation, air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or Airline alliance, alliances with other airlines for ...

based in

Bonaire Bonaire (; , ; pap, Boneiru, , almost pronounced ) is a Dutch island in the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. Its capital is the port of Kralendijk, on the west ( leeward) coast of the island. Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao form the ABC i ...

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. It operated services between the islands of the Netherlands Antilles, mostly flights between

Curaçao Curaçao ( ; ; pap, Kòrsou, ), officially the Country of Curaçao ( nl, Land Curaçao; pap, Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island country in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of the Venezuela coast ...

and

Sint Maarten Sint Maarten () is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean. With a population of 41,486 as of January 2019 on an area of , it encompasses the southern 44% of the divided island of Saint Martin, while the north ...

History

The airline started operations on October 4, 2004 with one

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and was formerly known as CuraçaoExel and later became Curaçao Express. It was wholly owned by Bonaire Participation. The airline was planned to expand with new aircraft types and destinations in the United States and South America. The airline merged with Bonair Express to form

Dutch Antilles Express Dutch Antilles Express B.V. was an airline of the Dutch country of Curaçao. It operated high-frequency scheduled services in the Dutch Caribbean to United States, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Haiti, and Suriname. Its main base was at Curaçao In ...

, which operated until it ceased operations in 2013.

Destinations

Curaçao Express operated the following services (in January 2005):

Fleet

The CuracaoExel/Curaçao Express fleet consisted of the following aircraft (at January 2005):

References

Defunct airlines of the Netherlands Antilles Defunct airlines of Bonaire Airlines established in 2004 Airlines disestablished in 2005 2004 establishments in the Netherlands Antilles 2005 disestablishments in the Netherlands Antilles {{NorthAm-airline-stub

History

Destinations

Fleet

See also

References